Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polities without some organized backing. Another discouraging factor is the illusion in the public mind that college presidents are dreamy, pensive fellows who have rusticated behind cloistered walls all their lives and hence are unfit to hold the reins of government. Mr. Wells himself seems to consider this idea in speaking of President Wilson, despite the fact that the ex-President of Princeton did manage to bring about a number of domestic reforms and put across a victory in France, albeit his Paris performance brought him to ultimate failure...
...service, there was outcry last week which suggested that such services still impede rather than aid the ecumenical movement. The High -Church Episcopal Living Church, in a 3,000-word editorial, riddled intercommunion as being contrary to the Prayer Book, disturbing to the faith of the faithful, fostering the idea that the Church is "just another sect," denying the sacrificial quality of the celebration, tending toward sacrilege, admitting that human fellowship can be a substitute for "Divine Society." Said the Living Church: "We ask for . . . sympathetic understanding in our disagreement with those who would make intercommunion a means to Christian...
...half years ago Edward Lynn, a grateful MacDowell Colony alumnus who now writes radio scripts in Hollywood, and Mrs. Natalie Alden Putnam, a Hollywood piano teacher, hit on the idea of holding an annual radio festival in honor of the composer. Choosing the date of MacDowell's death for their Festival...
Dean Hudnut also dealt with buildings and architecture. He had an idea to recommend, and be mentioned little else. The Dean wants to improve the quality of building now being done, and be realizes that this can only be done by improving the ability of those who do the building as is the workman, so is his product. The journalistic counterpart of this idea provides a similar basis for the Nieman Fellowships. Thus Dean Hudnut plans to require the students of his School to take an outside apprenticeship of at least six months before graduation, the object being more practical...
...service fellowships" (which) will carry stipends sufficient to make it possible for the holders to obtain a leave of absense from their regular work without too great financial loss... The holder of such a fellowship would, of course, be invited to Cambridge only if he had a clear idea of the line of study he wished to pursue... The plan is frankly experimental... We are, however, embarking on this enterprise with high hopes, confirmed by the favorable opinion of many journalists, editors and publishers who have been consulted... --Report of the President of Harvard University to the Board of Overseers...